Sentences with phrase «work during the depression»

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His hotel may be synonymous with Hollywood glitz and glamour, but Rosenthal grew up dirt poor 3,000 miles away in Medford, Mass. «I was born during the Depression — my dad was a plumber, and he worked 24/7 just trying to keep the family in the house,» he recalls.

«If I'm working with someone who grew up during the Depression, they don't spend a dime because the Depression is in their DNA,» Kay says.

In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Hershey ignited a building mini-boom in his town in order to keep men working.

Today in Japan, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio - Economic Development, workers who began their careers during the «lost decade» of the 1990s and are now in their 30s make up six out of every 10 cases of depression, stress, and work - related mental disabilities reported by employers.

I was interested to know what that has taught a guy who grew up in a modest home during the Great Depression, in a hard - working, small - town community, who himself lived paycheck - to - paycheck for most of his working years.

Ottley worked at whatever jobs he could find during the Depression» as a bellhop, railroad porter, and social worker» until he found his true calling as a writer.

During the Depression he worked his way through college by sweeping floors for 25 cents an hour.

Marian's life is an eclectic mix: child of the Great Depression, mother of seven, global ambassador of a fledgling breastfeeding support organization, during a time period when most women were either stay - at - home mothers or were working as teachers, secretaries, or factory workers.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 19, 2009 Not afraid to tackle dirty work: MBA student sees market with no rivals and starts her own diaper service by Doris Hajewski» It was during the Great Depression that the first commercial diaper - washing services started popping up around the country.

Their work, published in the PLoS ONE journal, showed that hair cortisol levels in women who developed postpartum depression were higher throughout pregnancy than those seen in women who hadn't developed it, being that difference statistically more significant during the first and third trimesters.

The ability to work as a duet during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period, grounded in evidence based strategies and procedures, reduces anxiety and depression and increases feelings of love and attachment within the relationship.

«As the 111th Congress completes its work on behalf of the American people, I'd like to thank New York's delegation for its service during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,» Governor Paterson said.

Some features throughout these five parks were built during the Great Depression as part of the Work Projects Administration.

Whereas the present study focuses primarily on documenting brain changes during pregnancy, she expects follow - up work to tackle more applied questions such as how brain changes relate to postpartum depression or attachment difficulties between mother and child.

Their work, published in the PLoS ONE journal, showed that hair cortisol levels in women who developed postpartum depression were higher throughout pregnancy than those seen in women who hadn't developed it, being that difference statistically more significant during the first and third trimesters.

The average time to recovery from depression was 9 months longer for adults who had been physically abused during their childhood and about 5 months longer for those whose parents had addiction problems» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair in the University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

Previous work from a team at Imperial College London suggests depression during pregnancy may affect the development of the baby while in the womb, as well as affecting bonding between mother and child after birth.

During my work as a consultant pharmacist, I saw quite a few patients who were hospitalized for psychosis later to be found to be suffering from hyperthyroidism and a patient who was found to have under - treated hypothyroidism after being hospitalized for treatment - resistant depression.

The next sphere where Lachesis works wonders is mental depression during Menopause.

An dramatic and comedic ensemble piece, the one - act traces several years in the lives of a group of characters working in an auto parts warehouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Synopsis: During the Great Depression, ex-boxer James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) works as a day laborer until his former manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) o...

She was born during the Depression, so that's why, in her son's mind, she works so hard.

«In Dubious Battle» is the story of the working class during the Depression, striking against an increasingly cruel establishment in ways that would lead to the formation of workers» rights, including a minimum wage.

The Coronado School opened in 1937 in Albuquerque, N.M., one of many schools built during the Depression with federal funding from the Public Works Administration.

By the way, in my Stockett research for this post, I learned on the PenguinUK website that the author is at work on a second novel: «It also takes place in Mississippi, during the 1930's and the Great Depression.

With approximately 250 homes, it provided housing, work, and a community environment to unemployed workers and their families during the Great Depression.

During the depression many farmers took in the wives and children of their city cousins while the men hit the road looking for work.

Born in 1904, Clyfford Still's early work in the 1930s reflected his environment: rugged farm hands and laborers toiling away during the Great Depression.

Many of the first generation of Absract Expressionists such as William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and Jack Tworkov were employed in the government - funded Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression in the mid-1930s.

She was the first of few women accepted into the Artists» Club and participated as an artist in the Works Progress Administration during the depression.

His early work in the 1930s reflects his environment: rugged farmhands and laborers toiling away during the Great Depression.

Despite PrintMatters» launching during the worst recession since the Great Depression, what started with a small exhibition of work by the five founding artists has grown so much that in 2014, members voted to seek 501 (c)(3) nonprofit status so they could pursue grants and expand programming.

In 1931, during the early days of the Depression, before the Works Progress Administration was put in place, an outdoor art exhibition, modeled on those in Europe, was held in Washington Square to help struggling artists make a living.

Iconic works include New York's landmark Chrysler Building (designed by alumnus and architect William van Alen), groundbreaking covers of Esquire magazine (designed by alumnus and master communicator George Lois), Sesame Street's beloved Big Bird (created by Jim Henson and brought to life by faculty member and master puppet builder Kermit Love), Scrabble (conceived by alumnus and out - of - work architect Alfred Mosher Butts during the Depression), the sleek Corvette C5 (redesigned by alumnus and industrial designer John Cafaro), OXO Good Grips (co-launched by alumnus and industrial designer Tucker Viemeister), and the Dunkin Donuts logo (colors and typeface selected by alumna, faculty member, and industrial designer Lucia DeRespinis).

During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange was working for the US Government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished faDuring the 1930s, Dorothea Lange was working for the US Government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished faduring the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished farmers.

Like many American artists during the Depression, Roszak also found regular work through the Federal Art Project: he taught at the Design Laboratory, a tuition - free, experimental design school opened in 1935 under the aegis of the WPA.

The film follows the trajectory of Grannan's previous work (99, Boulevard) depicting an unseen (and in many ways unwanted) America through intimate portraits of strangers she finds in California, particularly in economically ravaged parts of the Central Valley that were photographed by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression.

Situating Rothko's work of this period in relation to his later work — the luminous floating blocks of painted colors for which he is best known — Kertess remarks: «The work he created in the 1930s is filled with an intensity, pathos, and brooding light that embody not only his personal sense of dislocation, but that of much of the population at large during the decade of the Depression.

He later worked on the Federal Art Project during the Depression.

Ethel Magafan is known for her abstracted Western landscapes as well as, earlier in her career, the murals she created during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration...

The participating artists were active in the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and their works in the portfolio displayed images of oppression and despair as well as of hope for «new life.&rWorks Progress Administration during the Great Depression and their works in the portfolio displayed images of oppression and despair as well as of hope for «new life.&rworks in the portfolio displayed images of oppression and despair as well as of hope for «new life.»

She studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and worked as an artist for the WPA during the Depression.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

Prior to the war, many of them participated in the Federal Art Project, (WPA) Works Progress Administration, which provided stipends during the depression in the Roosevelt administration.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Inviting the public to take part in the construction of the «Hunger Wall», various people give their reactions to the work with one elderly lady recalling a time during the depression when she had to eat bread baked from the flour usually fed to animals.

This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era — including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Grant Wood — to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.

In September 1935, at 22 years of age, he moved to New York where he worked as an artist in the WPA program during the Great Depression.

During the Great Depression, Welty worked as a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration.

In 1937, along with Jackson Pollock and Louise Nevelson, he was employed by the Federal Art Project, one of the branches of the Works Progress Administration created during the Great Depression which would operate until 1941.